Iga Świątek in the 1/8 finals she fought with a Chinese woman Qinwen Zheng (74th WTA) for promotion to the quarter-finals Roland Garros. The Polish woman won 2: 1 (6: 7, 6: 0, 6: 2), but during the game the 20-year-old woman from Raszyn had a slip-up.
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Iga Świątek mistook the breaks. The second such slip-up of a Polish woman during the French Open
During the first game of the match with the Chinese sensation of the tournament Polka she went down to her bench to drink. ¦wi±tek she wanted to sit down, but after a while she remembered that it was not time to take a break match. Tennis player she drank standing up and went back to competing with the Chinese woman.
Jessica Pegula in the Roland Garros quarter-finals. He will play with Iga Świątek
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This is not the first such situation with the participation of Iga Świątek during this year’s Roland Garros. Polka in the match 1/16 final with Alison Riske The (43rd WTA) did something almost identical. In the first game of the second set, Świątek went to her bench to drink and sat down, but the judge quickly returned the player to the court. After the game itself, more was said about this situation than about the result. The Polish woman dealt with the American fairly quickly and won 2: 0 (6: 0, 6: 2).
Christmas in the quarter-finals of Roland Garros
Despite the setback at the beginning of the meeting, Świątek turned out to be better than the Chinese Qinwen Zheng, winning the match 2: 1 (6: 7, 6: 0, 6: 2), and advanced to the quarter-finals French Open. In the next round, the Pole will face the American Jessica Pegula (11th WTA), who defeated Irina-Camelia Begu (63rd WTA) in the 1/8 finals 2: 1 (4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3).
Today’s victory was the 32nd consecutive victory for Christmas. The Polish representative has been unbeaten since February and is setting new records on world courts. It is also worth adding that Świątek is the only tennis player from the top 10 ranking WTAwhich has not yet dropped out of the French Open.
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